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Originally Posted by jazzy48

I've read Talk of the Villages for awhile, but just joined to post. I know there have been threads about the hospital before and I just had to tell about my experience there.

My husband entered the hospital two weeks ago for lung cancer surgery. He was in a total of one week. In that entire week, I can't even begin to think of a complaint against this hospital or any of its staff. His care could not have been better. This includes all of the pre-surgery testing he had to go through up to his discharge.

There was never a wait for attention from a nurse and all of his doctors came by every day and always took their time to talk and answer questions.

We feel so fortunate to have gone through this ordeal in The Villages.

Jazzy,

Your positive experience was a mirror image of ours. My husband was admitted via the ER for chest pains - but the docs (and especially the hard-working nurses) made our stay comfortable and impressed us with their competence and professionalism.

One thing that could improve TVRH - our good friend Russ_Boston could come on down and work there! : -)

Kate

PS - In case you are thinking that I have no point of reference to frame a valid comparison... My last trip to the hospital was to a teaching hospital affiliated with a top 5 medical school in the US. The nursing staff there was also outstanding - the rest of the experi3ence made me feel I was being treated by the Keystone Cops.